A Look at Intellectual Property Piracy In Taiwan :: Intellectual Property Piracy Taiwan Essays

A step at Intellectual Property plagiarization In Taiwan insertion Current Piracy Situation In Asia, Intellectual property plagiarism is rampant. Much attention has been directed at this issue and progress has been make in almost all Asian countries. Among them, Taiwan has been singled out as one of the worst offenders in the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) violation.1 The following statistics shows that the buccaneering rate in Taiwan is not very high compared to Korea and China. (More upstart data is unavailable when I checked BSA.) Table 1. Piracy grade ---------------------------------------------------------Country 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 Korea 75% 76% 70% 67% 64% U.S. 31% 26% 27% 27% 25% Japan 66% 55% 41% 32% 31% Taiwan 72% 70% 66% 63% 50% China 97% 96% 96% 96% 95% Total World 49% 46% 43% 40% 38% --------------------------------------------------------- Source Business Software Alliance (BSA) ---------------------------------------------------------Why is Piracy so RampantWhy, then, is Taiwan considered a major offender for the lead three years and counting? First, Taiwan has a monopoly on CD manufacturing and is renowned for its hardware manufacturing. Spend some time researching about untenanted CDs and you will find that most of them are manufactured in Taiwan.